# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1619
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32362 "2017-01-21T16:12:02Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > The context is to fire people who voted for Clinton BEFORE they can sabotage anything. Or as someone up above said, “crimethink.” And maybe some projection as well given the Republican’s actions in Congress over the last 8 years. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32363 "2017-01-21T16:17:39Z")
Did he give us any hints as to how he was going to know who voted for Clinton? The good news would be that he doesn’t actually know, and can’t. That bad news…the _really_ bad news!..would be if he _does_ know. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32364 "2017-01-21T16:41:27Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > No, no it’s not. It’s not ‘who sabotage’ It’s who is ' **likely’** to sabotage. > > Bolding mine. > > Gingrich thinks it’s ‘likely’ that they will sabotage each new cabinet secretary. Probably because it’s something he would do. ding ding ding - winner! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32365 "2017-01-21T19:22:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Did he give us any hints as to how he was going to know who voted for Clinton? The good news would be that he doesn’t actually know, and can’t. That bad news…the _really_ bad news!..would be if he _does_ know. Maybe Comey gave him a list. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32366 "2017-01-21T23:23:59Z")
The federal workforce is something like 20% black. Negroes, who work for the hated gubmint? They aren’t Newt Gingrich voters, that’s for sure. So he’ll purge the blacks, because they would vote against him, and it’s “political” and not “racist.” But people don’t vote for Newt Gingrich because he’d fire them for doing their jobs, and also he’s apparently some kind of a political racist. So really, it’s “I’m going to fire them because they’d oppose me getting into a position to fire them, and they’re right because I would fire them anyway.” But the real primary reason? Maybe because Newt’s white tax dollars paying a black lady’s civil servant salary sticks in his Neo-Confederate craw. Or maybe because he’s a dangerous nut who wants to wreck the government and undo the New Deal for weird corrupt reasons. Or maybe he just really believes in a radical version of state “efficiency.” He was a northern Republican originally. But it could be all of the above. Political racism, and even an endorsement of genocide, keeps popping up in the GOP, going back to the deliberate genocide in the Indian Wars, through the pro-Nazi America First bunch in the 1930’s, through more recent eliminationists. And even many Trump voters who consider themselves “not\* that\* racist” are aware of the stereotype and what they are voting for. Trump is embraced because he superficially fits an idealized idea of kyriarchy: The man in charge, the patriarch, his blonde family living the American Dream. But then we get stuck with his nasty little crook friends, like Newt. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32367 "2017-01-22T04:40:01Z")
Shouldn’t Newt be dead by now? And could he take Kissinger with him down to Hell? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32368 "2017-01-22T05:06:55Z")
The diabolic is strong in the USA, and it keeps its avatars alive a long time? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32369 "2017-01-22T06:52:02Z")
Kissinger frightens Satan, he won’t let him in. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32370 "2017-01-22T06:58:48Z")
Satan is busy constructing another circle for these guys. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32371 "2017-01-22T07:00:41Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Satan is busy constructing another circle for these guys. With a wall. Big, thick, beautiful wall. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32372 "2017-01-22T07:24:31Z")
Paid for in Limbo. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32373 "2017-01-22T16:31:05Z")
[Trump inaugural cake honoring the armed forces](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/01/21/trump-had-a-huge-luxurious-inauguration-cake-was-it-plagiarized/?utm_term=.bf0cee79ca30) metaphor for coming administration’s military plans. With its design copied from previous administration with the exception that while the original was real, Trump’s version was mostly Styrofoam. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32374 "2017-01-22T17:05:31Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > [Trump inaugural cake honoring the armed forces](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/01/21/trump-had-a-huge-luxurious-inauguration-cake-was-it-plagiarized/?utm_term=.bf0cee79ca30) metaphor for coming administration’s military plans. With its design copied from previous administration with the exception that while the original was real, Trump’s version was mostly Styrofoam. I refuse to believe it. This is too heavy-handed symbolism to exist in real life. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32375 "2017-01-22T20:01:33Z")
Kellyanne Conway: Swallow our bullshit if you want access. > **[Kellyanne Conway: Spicer 'gave alternative facts' on inauguration crowd](https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466)** > > Sean Spicer had slammed the media for reporting attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration appeared significantly smaller than Barack Obama's in 2009. When she was told her “alternative facts” were actually falsehoods, she said to Chuck Todd on _Meet the Press_, “If we’re going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms I think we’re going to have to rethink our relationship here.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32376 "2017-01-22T20:16:14Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Kellyanne Conway: Swallow our bullshit if you want access. > > [Kellyanne Conway: WH Spokesman Gave 'Alternative Facts' on Inauguration Crowd](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466) > > When she was told her “alternative facts” were actually falsehoods, she said to Chuck Todd on _Meet the Press_, “If we’re going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms I think we’re going to have to rethink our relationship here.” She should be treated with alternative courtesy. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32377 "2017-01-22T21:53:15Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > [Trump inaugural cake honoring the armed forces](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/01/21/trump-had-a-huge-luxurious-inauguration-cake-was-it-plagiarized/?utm_term=.bf0cee79ca30) metaphor for coming administration’s military plans. With its design copied from previous administration with the exception that while the original was real, Trump’s version was mostly Styrofoam. The best part is the company that made the knockoff not only acknowledged Goldman, but donated their fee to the Human Rights Campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32378 "2017-01-22T23:13:41Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Kellyanne Conway: Swallow our bullshit if you want access. > > [Kellyanne Conway: WH Spokesman Gave 'Alternative Facts' on Inauguration Crowd](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466) > > When she was told her “alternative facts” were actually falsehoods, she said to Chuck Todd on _Meet the Press_, “If we’re going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms I think we’re going to have to rethink our relationship here.” I like the phrase “alternative facts”! Nothing is ever a lie, ever again! No one ever has to admit they don’t know what they’re talking about, ever again! This is gonna totally fucking rock! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32379 "2017-01-22T23:31:06Z")
From the resulting Twitter hashtag: > [@](#): > > Hi, SAT Board, I need you to change my test scores. I didn’t get the questions wrong. I provided #alternativefacts > > I’m using #alternativefacts on my bank loan application tomorrow. > > I tried putting #alternativefacts on my tax forms and now I’m serving 15 to life ☹ > > Next time I stand on the scale to check my weight, I will only accept #alternativefacts. > > Can someone recommend a source of #alternativefacts for my bank account? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32380 "2017-01-22T23:40:08Z")
Alternative right, alternative facts = good Alternative energy, alternative lifestyle = take their coats ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32381 "2017-01-23T11:34:02Z")
[https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193....And,...have](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193....And,...have) > [@](#): > > This bill repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified related laws. > > The bill requires: (1) the President to terminate U.S. membership in the United Nations (U.N.), including any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body; and (2) closure of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. > > The bill prohibits: (1) the authorization of funds for the U.S. assessed or voluntary contribution to the U.N., (2) the authorization of funds for any U.S. contribution to any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation, (3) the expenditure of funds to support the participation of U.S. Armed Forces as part of any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation, (4) U.S. Armed Forces from serving under U.N. command, and (5) diplomatic immunity for U.N. officers or employees. It’s like a nightmare and I can’t wake the fuck up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1618) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1620)